RESENTMENT PREVAILS AMONG THE PEOPLE DUE TO NON-OPENING OF RAILWAY COACH FACTORY

RESENTMENT PREVAILS AMONG THE PEOPLE DUE TO NON-OPENING OF RAILWAY COACH FACTORY

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RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA------------------------One of backbone of Rohtas district, the industrial area Dalmianagar has been closed for the last 40 years. More than one lakh people were directly and indirectly associated with this factory and this was their main source of livelihood.

The Railway Board had acquired land spread over more than 217 acres of land in 2007 on which there was a plan to open a railway coach factory but even after 18 years, the railway has not taken any meaningful initiative in this direction due to which there is great disappointment among the people of the district.

Rajesh Trivedi of the Congress wrote a letter to the Railwy Minister Ashwini Vaishnav in this regard requesting that either the railways start its own coach factory or lease this land to a big industrialist on which a big industry can be established so that migration of people from the area can be stopped. Congress leaders have started taking meaningful initiatives in this direction. Now it remains to be seen as to how much success they get in this regard. Although this is a meaningful initiative, which the government of India should seriously consider.